Jeffrey Toobin CNN Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN Monday night that the city of Baltimore had "really disgraced itself" with its response to the looting and fires that ravaged the city on Monday.

"The disappearance of the police for hours this afternoon is something that is going to haunt this city for decades," Toobin said.

The mass unrest came the same day 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who was black, was buried after suffering a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody. The city let hour after hour pass where people in the city looted, according to Toobin.

"I think it was a shocking display of incompetence by the city of Baltimore," he said.

Toobin also called out city mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for not having a press conference on the riots until 8 p.m., and he questioned the tone of that press conference.

"It was a very passive, weirdly disconnected response by the mayor at that press conference," Toobin said. "She seemed like a spectator in her own city."

Rawlings-Blake has been heavily criticized for comments she made over the weekend in which she said police had been told to make sure protesters could exercise their free speech rights.

"We also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that, as well," she noted.

In a press conference on Monday, Rawlings-Blake said those words had been twisted. She noted that certain people had exploited the freedom given to demonstrators.

Asked by CNN later why she didn't call on the governor's help before Monday, Rawlings-Blake said she didn't want to respond with too much force that might escalate the situation. She didn't want to turn Baltimore into a "military state," she said.

"I was very measured because we wanted to make sure we had the appropriate response to what was going on in the ground," she said.

On Monday night, CNN's Chris Cuomo noted that his reporters found police "watching" looting and criminal activity without stopping it.